From ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net Thu Mar 12 16:25:03 1998 Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.125.27.73]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA27074 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:25:00 +0100 Received: (from ache@localhost) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07604 for i18n@dkuug.dk; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:24:05 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Resent-Message-Id: <199803121524.SAA07604@lsd.relcom.eu.net> Message-ID: <19980312182235.29418@nagual.pp.ru> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:22:36 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: =?koi8-r?Q?Alain_LaBont=E9=A0?= , unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: (i18n.422) Regular expressions in Unicode (Was: Ethiopic text) References: <9803121037.AA21262@unicode.org> <199803121429.PAA25815@dkuug.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199803121429.PAA25815@dkuug.dk>; from alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca on Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:25:47AM -0500 Organization: Biomechanoid Resent-From: ache@nagual.pp.ru Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:24:05 +0300 Resent-To: i18n@dkuug.dk On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:25:47AM -0500, Alain LaBonté  wrote: > A 02:37 98-03-12 -0800, Hallvard B Furuseth a écrit : > >I wrote: > > > >>> In particular, I wonder about > >>> character ranges: If the user says "[À-Å]" in his 8-bit charset (not > >>> latin-1), FYI: in practice I patch all regex family in FreeBSD tree to use collation sequence data from locale for [a-z]-type national ranges. Using Unicode f.e. not help here, because letters not sorted alphabetically (f.e. Russian YO letter is out of order) and [a-z]-type ranges assume alphabet order in most cases. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y